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Watch Matt Damon in new trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Martian

So Matt Damon’s back in outer space after nearly dooming all of humanity to a dusty grave in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Who was mad enough to now unleash this fiend on the red planet Mars? That would be Ridley Scott, in his upcoming movie The Martian.

Of course, we knew the film would be in safe hands considering Scott’s impressive back catalogue of sci-fi epics, including Alien, Prometheus, and of course, Blade Runner. But even so, we weren’t expecting The Martian to look THIS good.

The script has been penned by Cabin in the Woods director/co-writer Drew Goddard, suggesting we can expect the healthy dose of good humour that Interstellar critically lacked. “I am the greatest botanist on this planet,” declares Damon’s character, while on Mars, alone.